Gets blamed for a lot of things, does the weather. Convenient scapegoat, if you ask me.
Martin EdwardsHowever hard as I try, it keeps growing. My bibliomania is pretty acute.
Martin EdwardsLife coming out of a death, he'd told her, is the most potent myth of all.
Martin EdwardsTo her, it was an article of faith: any woman with talent owes it to herself, and to her gender, to make the most of her potential.
Martin EdwardsOne thing you learn in my job is that the truth is usually the last thing people want to emerge. Guilty or innocent, it doesn't matter. Everyone has something to hide.
Martin EdwardsSeldom happier than when I'm on my own, lost in a book.
Martin EdwardsHe loved the smell and feel of old books. To hold them was to touch the past.
Martin EdwardsLike a modern counterpart of a tightly-corseted Victorian, she needed to unbutton herself, learn the act of relaxation.
Martin EdwardsFor Marc, books were objects of beauty, to be loved, not just read.
Martin EdwardsWhatever the reasons, we never allow anyone else to know the whole of our personal history. I suppose we're afraid of what they might think of us. But there's more to it than that. We are terrified of what they might do with the knowledge.
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